Waste-guard for journal-boxes.



C. W. RENNER. WASTE GUARD FOR JOURNAL BOXES.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 11, 1914. 1,108,004. Patented Aug. 18, 1914.

CHARLES W. BENNER, OF ALTOONA, PENNSYLVANIA.

wAsrE-Gumn FOR JOURNAIPBOXES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 18, 1914.

Application filed February 11, 1914. Serial No, 818,098.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES W. Brennan, a citizen of the United States, residmg at Altoona, in the county of Blair and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Waste-Guards for Journal-Boxes, of which the following 1s a specification.

The invention relates to journal v.box attachments, and more particularly to the class of waste guards for use in journal boxes.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a dust guard wherein the same can be mounted on the lid or cover of a journal box and will automatically adjust itself to retain the waste containing the oil within the box to prevent the displacement thereof, the guard being raised with the lid or cover when access is to be had to the interlor of the journal box.

Another object of the invention 1s the provision of a dust guard which is of novel form and is readily and easily mounted in the journal box and also can be removed therefrom.

A further object of the invention l S the provision of a waste guard which is simple in construction, reliable and efficient in use, and inexpensive in manufacture.

With these and other objects in view, the

invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts. as will be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In the drawing: Figure fragmentary vertical longitudinal sectional view through a journal box, waste guard in position therein, of the box closed. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the guard. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the guard. Fig. 4 1s a sectional view on the line 14 of Fig. 1.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts views in the drawing.

Referring to the drawings in detail, A desi' nates a portion of a journal box, which is o the ordinary well-known onstruction, B the lid, C the pivot connecting it to the box A as usual to permit swinging move.- ment of the lid to open or closed position, and D the spring which is mounted in the lid in the ordinary well-known manner to with the lid corners 13 at its 1 is an enlarged showing the,

throughout the several act upon the same to hold it in closed position.

Passed within the journal box is the end portion of a journal 10 which engages with the bearings 11 as usual, the same mounted within the journal box. The dust guard comprises a curved plate 12 having rounded lower edge which conform to the contour of the bottom portion of the journal box A, while the opposite upper edge of the plate 12 is formed with a flange 14; having struck therefrom medially of the same spaced gles thereto, and which have integral there-. with at one side of the same a web 16 which extends across the gap between the ears 15, and this web 16 serves as a bearing or abutment for one end of a substantially T-shaped leaf spring 17 which is formed with a bight 18 intermediate its ends adapted to be fulcrumed on a hub portion 19 integral with and arranged between the cars 15, while the opposite headend 20 of the spring 17 engages the inner face of the lid B on the journal'box A, the said spring 17 being connected to the plate 12 by means of a r1vet 21 so that the same will be united together.

The plate 12 is arranged within the journal box as shown in Fig. 1 so that the ears 15 will protrude into a notch or cavity 22 formed in the lid B, and this spring 17 will exert a tension upon the plate 12 to press it against opposed studs 23 formed interiorly of the journal box A at opposite sides there .of so that on the closing of the lid B the plate 12 will be automatically positioned to engage the shoulder 23 on the bottom of the journal box, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing, to sustain the waste containing the oil in properposition at the underside of the journal 10 within the journal box.

On the raising of the lid B of the journal box A the studs 23 will guide the plate 12 against the resistance of the spring 17 so as to free the lower edge of the plate from the shoulder 23 interiorly of the journal box, and thus permit access to be had to the waste for the supplying of the same with oil.

From the foregoing it is thought that the. construction and manner of use of the device will be clearl understood, and therefore a more extende ex lanationhasbeen omitted.

What is claime is The combination with a journal box having a lid, of a waste guard mounted upon ears 15 which are at right ani gag 1,108,004i

the lid, means Within the journal box for In testimony whereof I afiix my signature guiding the Wasitle gutrd during the opening in presence of two Witnesses. and closin of t e 1i tension means operative upon %he Waste guard to hold the same CHARLES RENN 5 relative to the guidlng means, and a hub Witnesses:

formed on the Waste guard and serving as a ALEX. WEIR, fulcrum for the tension means. J OSEPH J. NAGLE. 

